2024
Refereed Conference Papers
- B. J. Zhang, I. Syed, J. Fick, and N. T. Fitter, “A Case Study on Robot Sound Design for a Sidewalk Delivery Robot,” in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics in Odense, Denmark, Oct. 2024. [Paper PDF]
2023
Refereed Journal Papers
- B. J. Zhang and N. T. Fitter, “Nonverbal Sound in Human-Robot Interaction: a Systematic Review,” ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1145/3583743. [Paper PDF]
2022
Refereed Conference Papers
- B. J. Zhang, N. Sigafoos, R. Moffit, I. Syed, L. S. Adams, J. Fick, and N. T. Fitter, “SonifyIt: Towards Transformative Sound for All Robots,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 10566–10572, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3193228. Presented at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems in Kyoto, Japan. [Paper PDF]
- B. J. Zhang, C. A. Sanchez, and N. T. Fitter, “Using the Price Sensitivity Meter to Measure the Value of Transformative Robot Sound,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Naples, Italy, May 2022, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900678. [Paper PDF]
- I. Syed, J. Fick, B. J. Zhang, and N. T. Fitter, “Toward Generative Sound Cues for Robots Using Emotive Musification,” presented at the The International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Virtual, Jun. 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.21785/icad2022.029. [Paper PDF]
Other
- B. J. Zhang, J. Fick, and N.T. Fitter, “Sound for Robots: A Workshop at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),” presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 2022. [Website]
2021
Refereed Conference Papers
- B. J. Zhang, K. Peterson, C. A. Sanchez, and N. T. Fitter, “Exploring Consequential Robot Sound: Should We Make Robots Quiet and Kawaii-et?,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2021, pp. 3056-3062. doi: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636365. [Paper PDF] [Presentation Video] [Appendix]
- B. J. Zhang, N. Stargu, S. Brimhall, L. Chan, J. Fick, and N. T. Fitter, “Bringing WALL-E out of the Silver Screen: Understanding How Transformative Robot Sound Affects Human Perception,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China, Jun. 2021, pp. 3801–3807. doi: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9562082. [Paper PDF] [Presentation Video] [Appendix]
- L. Chan✝, B. J. Zhang✝, and N. T. Fitter, “Designing and Validating Expressive Cozmo Behaviors for Accurately Conveying Emotions,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Aug. 2021, pp. 1037–1044. doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515425. [Paper PDF] [Presentation Video] [Appendix]
Refereed Workshop Papers (extended abstracts)
- B. J. Zhang, C. A. Sanchez, and N. T. Fitter, “Consequential Robot Sound: Should Robots Be Quiet and High-Pitched?,” presented at the Workshop on Sound in Human-Robot Interaction at the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Mar. 2021. [Paper PDF] [Presentation Video] [Appendix]
2020
Refereed Conference Papers
- B. J. Zhang, R. Quick, A. Helmi, and N. T. Fitter, “Socially Assistive Robots at Work: Making Break-Taking Interventions More Pleasant, Enjoyable, and Engaging,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Oct. 2020, pp. 11292–11299, doi: 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341291. [Paper PDF] [Presentation Video]
Refereed Workshop Papers (extended abstract)
- C. Frazee, B. J. Zhang, and N. T. Fitter, “Enabling Intentional Sound for Construction Cobots,” presented at the Workshop on Building, Construction, and Architecture Robotics at the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2020. [Paper PDF] [Poster PDF]
✝ Co-first authors.